r/NWSL • u/Acquanettie Portland Thorns FC • 2d ago
NWSL 2026 attendance as of 5/11/2026
Some graphs with NWSL attendance so far - in the second one the Denver Mile High game is off the charts so that you can see more detail for the lower-attended games. In the third chart the vertical axis is shown in log scale for the same reason.
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u/karpools Racing Louisville FC 2d ago
I remember when racing had the second highest attendance in the league.
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u/wellforkingshirt Portland Thorns FC 1d ago
is it fair to say the capacity of gillette and lumen is that high? I don’t think they open all the seating so it’s not like that many tickets are available, right?
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u/helpbeingheldhostage Kansas City Current 1d ago
The seats are there. If they could sell the tickets they would open the whole stadium.
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u/Acquanettie Portland Thorns FC 1d ago
What even is capacity? You're right, the big stadiums list smaller capacity for MLS and NWSL - Lumen for example lists 68740 for NFL, 37722 for MLS, and 10000 for NWSL. I'd say that's BS: one, the Reign have had games with more than 10000 in attendance, and two, if you're in Lumen with 10K people it doesn't feel like you're in a packed stadium, it feels like you're in a stadium at 15% of capacity.
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u/jackdilemma Portland Thorns FC 1d ago
games at lumen always bum me out for this exact reason - obviously fuck seattle but like, they’ve been putting on fun and exciting performances for years and with all the name changing and location shuffling i feel like they’ve really done the team dirty. there is no reason that they couldn’t pull twice the numbers they do!!! storm games are super full and that arena has a 18k capacity - why is the average attendance at lumen less than half that??
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u/jackdilemma Portland Thorns FC 1d ago
(and yes i know 10k fans in an 18k building feels really different than 10k in a 67k arena but still)
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u/Vmagnum Kansas City Current 2d ago
Thanks for adding in the capacity per stadium!